PETER DAWES worked as a transportation policy researcher, analyst, project manager and advisor for the Canadian Transport Commission and Government of Alberta until taking early retirement. He has had a lifelong personal and professional interest in railways and passenger trains, and resides with his wife Sandra in Edmonton, Alberta.
PHOTO: Author in bedroom of CABOT MANOR, part of VIA No. 2, the Canadian, heading east from Edmonton to Winnipeg on a cold winter's night (2001/02/24) [SANDRA DAWES].